Anorexics on Anorexia

Edited by Rosemary Shelley.

This was the book that inspired another editer to publish 'Bulimics on Bulimia'. I am glad that someone adressed bulimia in the same way; a collection of first hand stories of what it is like to suffer. However, to me, I gained more inspiration from the original 'Anorexia' stories. Somehow the endings in this book seemed on the whole, more sucessful.

‘I believe now that sufferers need to live out their Anorexia until they reach the point where they no longer want to have it.’

‘The main thing this time was that I wanted to get better for me, not to get out of hospital or to prove a point, but so I could start living again.’

‘Control that is so controlled it is out of control.’

‘By dying, no one would ever be able to take that achievement away from me.’